MARDALE, a hamlet, a mountain-vale, and a chapelry in Westmoreland. The hamlet bears the name of Mardale-Green; lies in the vale, 1 mile S of the head of Haweswater, and 6½ SW by W of Shap r. station; and has a small inn.-The vale descends 2½ miles north-north-eastward to the head of Haweswater; takes thither a streamlet of its own name; is overhung, at the head, by Harterfell, -on the E, by Branstree, -on the N, by High-street and Kidsty-pike; and is partitioned into two sections by the narrow ridge of Long Stile, projecting from High-street.—The chapelry is partly in Shap parish and partly in Bampton parish; but has not well-defined limits. Post town, Penrith. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Carlisle. Value, £132. Patron, the Vicar of Shap. The church stands in the hamlet, among yews and sycamores; and has a low square tower.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))